Appendicitis...

So it seems I'm prone to having surgeries during the most random times... This time, it was for my appendix. Tuesday morning, around 1am, I was tossing and turning in bed with severe cramps and abdominal pains. After about 20 minutes of wrestling with that, I decided to head over to the bathroom where I was greeted with vomit and mud butt (mmmm, lovely story so far!).

After doing my business, I was still in pain. I wrestled with this for 2-3 hours. My parents were up at this time, checking on me. We tried all sorts of gas-relieving medicine, but nothing worked... At 4.30am I was in the ER at the hospital that I work at because I just couldn't take it anymore. They took me in immediately and started running tests.

While laying in the gurney, getting all kinds of drugs injected into my system, the hospital's emergency generators were being tested. A bit of a shock to all of us. Lights flickering, PC's turning off and nurses losing all their charting that they just had completed. Something unrelated to the generator check; one of the mobile computers (Computers on Wheels a.k.a COW's) was being unresponsive, so me being the I.T. employee for that hospital informed the nurse to just reboot. Everything was all well. That reminds me, I should go and document that on my time card since i was working during my off hours, haha.

Anywhoozle, I spent about 7 hours in the ER. The doctors requested that I get an ultrasound (it was a boy, btw), and also a CT Scan. From these tests and the fact that my white blood cell count was at 17500 above normal or whatever, the doctors said there's definitely something wrong. They admitted me for observation for the night and my surgeon was going to evaluate me later that night.

So I'm sent to my room (which was private, sweet! V.I.P. treatment!) and my family and even co-workers came by and visited. I'm pretty sure my co-workers thought I was faking the whole ordeal because the day before I was complaining about all the work that was presented to us... If only I was faking, haha. So we all joked around. They wanted to bring up a laptop so that I could still perform my daily duties. I had a phone in my room and if I had the laptop, I would be complete... Yeah, like that was going to happen! All joking aside, they wished me well.

At about 7pm one of my nurses came into the room and said they were going to prep me for surgery. My family and I were in complete shock because we were told that I was going to be observed for the night and if the pain was still there, I'll go through operation the next morning. Well, my surgeon found something that he didn't like and made a request for the OR to get it ready for me. Crazy!

So before heading over, my family and I had a prayer circle and wished me all the best. It was great. I'm not gonna' lie; I was scared shitless. I was sent to the OR room and the surgery was a success. Took about an hour or so with recovery being about another 30 minutes or hour. I have no idea because I was out cold.

My surgeon was telling my folks what happened. I had what they call in pure medical terms, "A pissed off appendix" (his exact words!). If I had waited another day or so, the thing would have ruptured! I was so lucky and I thank God that He guided me through everything. I'm usually stubborn about medical stuff and refuse to take medicine / see someone, but this time I didn't even fight it for one bit.

So I'm back in my room and just letting the nurses do their job. I'm pretty much out of it because of all the anesthesia. I saw pictures of my appendix and I'll tell ya, it was pretty disgusting, haha. It did look pissed off!

Breakfast time comes around and after not eating for OVER 24 HOURS, I was greeted with some of the best beef broth, jello and apple juice that I've ever had. Food has never tasted soooo good. It may have still been a liquid diet, but it was a lot better than having the IV feeding me...

My nurse informed me that after every meal, I should do a couple laps around the nurses station because walking around will help the healing process. Who am I to argue over a nurse who's paid to heal people? It'd be like a nurse trying to tell me how the computer works when they don't know anything about that sort, haha. So I did that, watched tv, and had my lunch which consisted of SOLID FOODS THIS TIME! Cha-Ching! I was living like a king now! Salad, potatoes, carrots, meatballs, a bread roll, apple juice and carrot cake! I had the biggest grin on my face when I saw that I was getting real food. It was great.

While eating, my nurse comes in and asks me, "So who wants to be discharged!?" I couldn't believe it. I didn't think it would be that soon, but it was. Everybody was saying that I was doing well and that I'm free to head back home. Again, who I am to complain? So around 2 or 3pm Wednesday afternoon, I was discharged. Made a stop at the pharmacy to get my meds (2 vicodin tablets every 4 hours, twice a day. MONEY!)

So here I am, at home now, typing this up before I head to rest up. And to make a long story short (too late), I don't think I'll be updating my blog for a bit. Sorry =/ But posted below is something that'll quench your thirst for a bit. For all 3 of you that check this on a regular basis, I'll get back to updating as soon as possible.

Enjoy the rest of the week and have an awesome weekend!